What is the edgeband thickness according to the number of layers?

Standard dimensions table

HOW WE DO THICK VENEER IN ROLLS

Veneer’s selection

To produce thick edges, veneers are previously selected (quality choice and colour coordination). Although it depends on the timber species, quarter cut, with a uniform, straight vertical grain, is preferred through the world by furniture designers, obtaining an almost invisible spice line.

Union

To obtain an almost invisible spice line veneer sheets are put together by an irregular taped zig-zag union. This technique optically conceals the union of both sheets and the backside is strengthened with fabric.

Pressing and gluing

If the veneer is not perfectly flat, it’s pressed before being turned into edges. Reducing veneer buckles avoids edge banding application failures, thus eliminating the risk of production interruptions.

All single layers are bonded together using PVA glues. These glues boost flexibility and are resistant to humidity.

Cutting and bonding

The edge banding manufacturing process ends up by saw slicing the jumbo rolls, to ensure clean cut and to avoid splintering.

Packing

Finally, the thick veneer rolls are packed in cardboard boxes or pallets. If requested by the customer, rolls are wrapped in plastic bags, to preserve wood qualities.

Veneer’s selection

To produce thick edges, veneers are previously selected (quality choice and colour coordination). Although it depends on the timber species, quarter cut, with a uniform, straight vertical grain, is preferred through the world by furniture designers, obtaining an almost invisible spice line.

Union

To obtain an almost invisible spice line veneer sheets are put together by an irregular taped zig-zag union. This technique optically conceals the union of both sheets and the backside is strengthened with fabric.

Pressing and gluing

If the veneer is not perfectly flat, it’s pressed before being turned into edges. Reducing veneer buckles avoids edge banding application failures, thus eliminating the risk of production interruptions.

All single layers are bonded together using PVA glues. These glues boost flexibility and are resistant to humidity.

Cutting and bonding

The edge banding manufacturing process ends up by saw slicing the jumbo rolls, to ensure clean cut and to avoid splintering.

For special projects, jobs where high precision is required, we reduce the veneer thickness by means of back calibrated sanding, approaching the hundredth. Thus, a thick veneer rolls of the exact thickness requested by the customer is obtained.

For 1 mm thickness, and when using veneer with a greater tendency to splinter, we can apply a 30 grams fleece between layers, ensuring a clean, splinter free final piece of veneered furniture.

Varnish Options

We offer all possibilities of varnish types on the surface of our veneer thick edges. Making it clear that we deliver the edge profile unvarnished. The customer must test the product, since depending on its varnishing system, he will manage to cover or not the edge profile once bonded to the panel.

By using UV varnishes, we can distinguish:

Sanded + Ground Lacquered

Veneer edges ready to be finished (varnished).

If the product has been stored for some time in your warehouse, it is advisable to light sand the veneer edges surface, in order to open the pore enabling thus a better adherence of the varnish product.

At the customer’s request, we can supply a ground lacquered with a wider or narrower wood pore.

This film enables the user to previously fit the edge on the board and proceed to varnish the surface of the board with the different techniques available (roller, spray, …). Once the process accomplished, the film is removed (peeled off ) from the edge, revealing a perfect finish, free of stains and scratches.

Peel and stick

A pressure sensitive adhesive (PSA) can be applied to the underside of the 1 mm (2 layers) thick veneer edge, protected by a silicon paper foil.

Removing this foil will enable you to adhere (with a light manual pressure) the edge to different surfaces (such a chipboard, mdf, solid wood, etc …)

Following latests surfaces trends, we can apply different embossing to our veneer edges, enhancing the visual experience of real wood with natural tactile effects.

We have created embossings that feel and look like raw and finished woods. Our embossings can be strong and aggressive, transversal or with saw cut marks, conferring perfection not only in optics but also in haptics to our edge banding.

A plastic protective low adherence film can be applied to the surface of the edge.

This option is most suitable for varnished and finished edges.

This film enables the user to previously fit the edge on the board and proceed to varnish the surface of the board with the different techniques available (roller, spray, …). Once the process accomplished, the film is removed (peeled off ) from the edge, revealing a perfect finish, free of stains and scratches.

Its difference , compared to the more traditional systems of EVA base glue (hot melt), lies within the maximum bonding joint quality it offers.

The joint between the edge and the board is practically invisible .

This features a solid aspect of the finished item, giving it the appearance of being made of a single material (surface and edge) in a single process .

Furthermore, we can apply a layer of modified polypropylene to the underside of the 2.500 references in stock , in order to enable our edges to be used both on laser diode or hot air edge-banding machines.

This polypropylene layer is available in 4 tones : white ,beige (natural), black, and brown.

Depending on the color of the melamine and our edge, we use the most suitable color.

We strongly recommend a previous test of our product for the customer’s evaluation of the optimal joint result.

The fineline or reconstituted veneer is a thin veneer sheet obtained through lamination process beginning at the edge of a veneer block, thus obtaining a perfectly homogeneous or straight grain.

While manipulating the contour of the sheets to be pressed, various configurations and very attractive aspects are obtained. Some or all the sheets can be dyed before joining them, so as to create astonishing aspects and colours.